Orange cake ???

Churchmouse

AussieLass wrote: »

My father made a lovely orange cake. I've got the recipe & it's delish. It's one of my favourite cakes and I always requested it as my birthday cake. They are popular over here.

And??? Where's the link, where's the recipe? You can't just *mention* cake without the recipe. Tis against the rules of OS

AussieLass

You are such a pain. I am upstairs. :rolleyes: Recipe book is downstairs. :rolleyes: I'll do it later. I can't see you whipping into the kitchen now to make it. You should be asleep.

sandy2_2

Thanks everyone, I wondered if I could substitute the ground almonds with semolina as that would take up a lot of the liquid, as Nigella's recipe is very wet. what do you think

AussieLass

Orange Cake

1 cup sugar
4 oz butter
2 eggs
1/4 cup orange juice
1/4 cup milk
1 tbsp orange rind
1 1/2 cups SR Flour

Cream butter & sugar, add rind & egg yolks, beat well. Add milk & flour alternately with orange juice. Fold in stiffly beaten egg whites. Pour into two 7" sponge tins. Bake for 30 mins in moderate oven.

Fill with mock cream & ice with icing made with orange juice instead of milk.

thriftmonster

Sounds excellent Aussielass - off to make it now as I'm making orange and date chutney as well and will have rind leftover.

Pipkin

angie_loves_veg wrote: »

How about a carrot and orange cake?

I am sure there would be (or you could adapt) a recipe out there that uses the juice in the frosting/icing and the rind in the body of the cake (or the other way around!)

Tescos do a carrot and orange cake which is totally scrummy..I bet a homemade one would be even better.

adsk

This is quite a refined orange cake. I made it with a blood orange which gave it a lovely flavour and a deep colour. The crunchy topping didn't quite work for me either but the cake had a delicious and delicate taste and texture.

http://chocolateandzucchini.com/archives/2007/01/piege_cake.php

Melonade

Hi,

I'm about to make a cake from "Good Food 101 cakes and bakes" and the first part of the recipe says "put the orange in a pan, cover with cold water. Bring to the boil, cover and simmer for 1 hour".

It doesn't say to peel the orange but says later in the instructions "Roughly chop the cooked orange, discard the pips. Wizz in the food processor until smooth" Still no mention of the skin :eek:.

So my questions are.....

Anyone made this before and do I peel the orange?

Also would I be able to blend it with a stick blender? Just realised I need a food processor while I was typing lol.

Thanks.

(I think thw "whole" part of the title may mean the skin and all which sounds vile)

JayJay14

It means leave the skin on. The cooking and processing of the whole orange will mean all the flavour of the zest will be in the cake - it will be yum.

Melonade

WOW that was fast Thanks for replying... off to boil an orange!!